09-09-2011, 05:13 PM
Panopticon wrote:
yep, daemons are background services. That CleanApp daemon is logging any
app install performed & tracking where relevant files are placed. That lets CleanApp
completely eliminate the app later when you choose to do so.
PID 0: kernel_task is OS X's primary memory manager on top of the Mach Kernel. It's also a dynamic image of the microkernel. One of the design protocols for OS X was to reduce the daemon count [bloat], which was achieved with kernel_task.
It uses nearly a gig of RAM because it is the OS and is managing real & virtual memory.
Thank you for your explanation - this helps a lot!